Skickat

Skickat is the past participle of the Swedish verb skicka, meaning to send. It signifies that something has been sent and is commonly used in tenses built with auxiliary verbs as well as in adjectival phrases.

In grammar, skickat appears in the active present perfect and pluperfect constructions, such as har skickat ("has sent") or hade skickat ("had sent"). It also forms the passive voice, most commonly as skickats, in phrases like brevet har skickats ("the letter has been sent"). In simple past, the active form is skickade ("I sent").

Because it is a participle, skickat can sometimes function attributively to describe a noun, though more natural Swedish often prefers other constructions for describing sent items. The related verb forms include skickar (present), skickade (past), and skicka (infinitive). Swedish also uses the simple passive form skickas for present-tense passive voice, as in Meddelandet skickas dagligen ("The message is sent daily").

Usage outside grammar includes information technology and logistics, where Skickat is frequently shown as a status label to indicate that a message or package has been dispatched. In such contexts, the term mirrors the English "sent" or "dispatched" and appears in user interfaces, reports, and notifications.

Etymology follows the verb skicka, with cognates in other Germanic languages such as Danish and Norwegian sendt, and English send. Skickat thus belongs to the common set of Scandinavian past participles formed with -at.